Laser Chemistry: Spectroscopy, Dynamics and Applications

Laser Chemistry: Spectroscopy, Dynamics and Applications provides a basic introduction to the subject, written for students and other novices. It assumes little in the way of prior knowledge, and carefully guides the reader through the important theory and concepts whilst introducing key techniques and applications.

Helmut H. Telle received BSc, MSc and PhD degrees in physics
from the University of Koln (Germany), in 1972, 1974 and 1979
respectively. Between 1980 and 1984 he spent research periods at
the Department of Chemistry, University of Toronto (Canada), the
Centre d' Etude Nucleaire de Saclay (France) and the Laboratoire
des Interactions Ioniques, University of Marseille (France), Where
he was mainly engaged in research on molecular reaction dynamics
exploiting laser spectroscopic techniques. Since 1984 he has been
Professor for Laser Physics in the Department of Physics, Swansea
University (Wales, UK), where he has pursued research and
development of laser systems and spectroscopic techniques for trace
detection of atomic and molecular species, applied to analytical
problems in industry, biomedicine and the environment. His
expertise includes the techniques of laser-induced breakdown
spectroscopy (LIBS), tuneable diode laser absorption spectroscopy
(TDLAS), resonant ionization mass spectrometry (RIMS) and Raman and
Near-field scanning optical microscopy (NSOM). More recently, he
has once again returned to his roots associated with fundamental
aspects in atomic and molecular physics, ranging from precision
spectroscopy of exotic species, like positronium and anti-hydrogen,
to probing of reactions at surfaces utilizing ultra-short laser
pulses. He has held visiting appointments at the Centro de
Investigacion en Optica, Leon (Mexico), the Universidad Complutense
de Madrid (Spain) and at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
(Belgium).

Angel Gonzalez Urena obtained a chemistry degree from the
University of Granada (Spain) in 1968, followed by a PhD in
Physical Chemistry from the Complutense University (Madrid, Spain)
in 1972. During the period 1972-1974 he worked in the fields of
molecular beam and reaction dynamics at the Universities of Madison
(Wisconsin, USA) and Austin (Texas, USA), and in later years at
universities in the UK. He became Associate Professor in Chemical
Physics in 1974 and Full Professor in 1983, both at the
Completeness University of Madrid. His research interests focus
mainly on gas-phase, cluster and surface reaction dynamics, using
molecular beam and laser techniques. He was one of
the pioneers in measuring threshold energies in chemical
reactivity when changing the translational and electronic energy of
the reactants, as well as in the measurements of high-resolution
spectroscopy in intra-cluster reactions. More recently, his
interests have branched out into the application of laser
technologies to Analytical Chemistry, Environmental Chemistry,
Biology and Food Science. he is the head of the Department of
Molecular Beams and Lasers at the Institution Pluridisciplinar
(Complutense University, Madrid); for the first 10 years of the
institute's existence he also was its first director. He has held
visiting appointments at Cambridge University (UK), at the
universite de Paris Sud (France) and at the Academia Sinica, Taiwan
National University (Taipei, Taiwan).

Robert J. Donovan Graduated (BSc Hons) from the
University of Wales in 1962. Following a year in industry, with
Procter and Gamble appointed a Research Fellow of Gonville and
Caius College (Cambridge) in 1966, and in 1970 he moved to the
Department of Chemsitry at the University of Edinburgh. In 1979 he
was appointed Professor of Physical Chemistry, and in 1986 he was
appointed to the Foundation (1713) Chair of Chemistry at Edinburgh.
His research interests lie in the fields of gas-phase energy
transfer, photochemistry, reaction dynamics, spectroscopy and
atmospheric chemistry. He was one of the pioneers of kinetic
spectroscopy in the vacuum ultraviolet and has contributed
substantially to the use of lasers and synchrotron radiation for
the study of chemical and physical processes involving
electronically excited states. His work in the field of
spectroscopy has involved extensive studies of Rydberg, ionic and
charge-transfer states, using optical-optical double resonance
(OODR), resonance-enhanced multiphoto ionization (REMPI) and zero
kinetic energy (ZEKE) photoelectron spectroscopy. In addition, he
has applied laser techniques to a number of analytical areas,
including LIBS, matrix-assisted laser desorption and ionization
(MALDI) and aerosol mass spectrometry (AMS). He has held visiting
appointments at the Universities of Alberta (Canada), Gottingen
(Germany), Canterbury (New Zealand), the Australian National
University at Canberra, the Tokyo Institute of Technology and the
Institute for Molecular Science (Okazaki, Japan).

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